Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of the CRIMSON Faculty Post Card Straw Ballot, as registered by the return of 179 cards up to 6.30 last night, Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Republican nominee for President of the United States, defeated Governor James Middleton Cox, the Democratic candidate, by 27 votes...
...results are not large, but they are are a more definite expression than the 29 votes cast in the regular Presidential Straw Ballot. Harding carried the Medical School again, 10-6, and swept the Dental, Engineering, Education and Business Schools. The Law and Divinity Schools returned votes slightly favoring Cox. The Business School gave Christensen his only vote, while the College and the Medical School joined to give Debs his two vote support...
...result of the straw ballot for the five Presidential candidates held under the auspices of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association in 17 of the leading colleges in the East, Senator Warren G. Harding defeated Governor James M. Cox by 5800 votes out of a possible 15,683 cast for all five candidates...
...This ballot, representing the choice of 15,683 college men, would lead one to believe that Harding will be the choice of the educated people of the United States. However, the fact that most of these colleges from which returns have been received, are situated in and draw the largest part of their students from a district which is usually Republican, may have something to do with the results...
However, one thing this ballot does show rather conclusively, is that Debs, Christensen and Watkins cannot expect to compete with the candidates of the two older parties, and that they do not represent the choice of the educated voter. STRAW BALLOT RESULTS IN SEVENTEEN COLLEGES Harding Cox Debs Christensen Watkins Total Amherst, 255 87 11 9 2 334 Brown, 685 129 10 9 7 840 Colgate, 426 93 8 4 1 532 Columbia, 796 642 172 48 7 1665 Cornell, 747 317 62 18 6 1150 Dartmouth, 976 313 15 7 4 1315 Hamilton...